Patents by Inventor Dennis Matthews Wilkinson

Dennis Matthews Wilkinson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Social networking of mobile devices
    Patent number: 9288638
    Abstract: A method for social networking of mobile devices based upon telephone numbers of the mobile devices includes receiving user profile information and telephone numbers of contacts from a plurality of users' mobile devices; at least one of creating and updating respective user profiles based upon the telephone numbers of the users' mobile devices and the received profile information; identifying relationships among the users based at least upon the contacts contained in the contacts information; and establishing a social network group including at least two of the users based upon the identified relationships among the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Anupriya Ankolekar, Dennis Matthews Wilkinson, Bernardo Huberman, Gabor Janos Szabo, Fang Wu
  • Social Networking of Mobile Devices
    Publication number: 20110319058
    Abstract: A method for social networking of mobile devices based upon telephone numbers of the mobile devices includes receiving user profile information and telephone numbers of contacts from a plurality of users' mobile devices; at least one of creating and updating respective user profiles based upon the telephone numbers of the users' mobile devices and the received profile information; identifying relationships among the users based at least upon the contacts contained in the contacts information; and establishing a social network group including at least two of the users based upon the identified relationships among the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Anupriya Ankolekar, Dennis Matthews Wilkinson, Bernardo Huberman, Gabor Janos Szabo, Fang Wu